Talk:Krio language

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[edit] Proposed name change

The name "Krio" refers to both a language and an ethnic group, which are somewhat distinct concepts. (For instance, one could imagine the Krio people adopting another language but still remaining a separate group.)

Threfore, following a pattern that has been used in many other similar situations, the ethnic section was moved to a separate article, Sierra Leone Krio people. The "Krio" article, now only about the language, is being moved to Sierra Leone Krio language.

The long names are annoying, agreed; but there are many other languages with similar sounding names (Kriol, Kriolu, Kreyol, Criol, etc.). So it seems better to be verbose than to risk confusion.
Jorge Stolfi 02:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Long, excessively descriptive names are problematic, because nobody ever searches for them. If you want to avoid confusion, use a dab at the top. NickelShoe 04:22, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I found a tribe in Indonesia called the Krio Dayak, after the Krio River. They seem to have a language of their own. OK, it doesn't seem to be as important as the Sierra Leone Krios; and that may be just a variant spelling (one page seems to say that it is also called Keriu language). Anyway... Jorge Stolfi 19:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't me that moved the page...I don't see the point of the parentheses, personally. We don't use them to distinguish English language from English people. NickelShoe 20:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub no more?

At what point does the "stub" marker get removed? What's the next step up? I've seen it on a number of long articles (and added it to an obviously stubby one). This article looks longer than a stub anyway... --A12n 00:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

At this point. I tend to be quite liberal in applying stub tags since especially in this corner of Wikipedia articles can always use some attention and expansion, but the length of this article really makes it disqualify as a stud. — mark ✎ 09:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'R' sound

It seems that at least in some parts of Sierra Leone the 'r' sound is uvular, i. e. exactly as in my German mother language. Deriving information from ONE single example is a bit vague; but you can check yourself: http://accent.gmu.edu featuring a woman with mother language = Krio and a sort of 'r' sound which is characteristic for German and also for (worse) German pronunciation of English :) -andy 80.129.85.22 15:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

^As a Krio person, I can vouch for the veracity of this 'r' sound suggestion. It is characteristic of the language and is in fact one of its distinctive features. JJ